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Keeping Up The Good Fight
From The Emergency To The Present Day
by Prabir Purkayastha
LeftWord Books, New Delhi 2023, 230 pages
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For any of his contemporaries born in a freshly minted independent India, Prabir Purkayastha’s book, “Keeping Up The Good Fight”, is a total recall, in lightning-fast picture flash cards, of the last sixty-years of our own life after leaving school. With the difference that Prabir bookends the (…)
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